Unstable Packet Loss issue

[Cloud Roller]

I have good internet, like fast even after speed testing a couple times. Always put in matches with bad connections which ruins my matches. Just why?

[Blackout4711]

So this is 3rd or 4th party info but I heard somewhere that 343 employed a lot of ex-COD devs who outwardly hated Halo.

Now I'm no conspiracy theorist but I'm genuinely beginning to believe the Halo Infinite is a high-budget troll. I could swear that even when I'm on a low ping server however rare that happens, that I can walk around the map away from the action, and the MOMENT I get into a firefight suddenly my latency spikes and sometimes even get the packet loss error come up for a split second. I know I'm not the only one who gets this, I am lost as to why other than this being entirely intentional and 343 just absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with us. There's no other way I can explain waiting so long to get thrown into 200ms matches most of the time, and the few times it is a 'good' connection it just happens to go to hell the moment there's any action.

[Cloud Roller]

Originally posted by Blackout4711:

So this is 3rd or 4th party info but I heard somewhere that 343 employed a lot of ex-COD devs who outwardly hated Halo.

Now I'm no conspiracy theorist but I'm genuinely beginning to believe the Halo Infinite is a high-budget troll. I could swear that even when I'm on a low ping server however rare that happens, that I can walk around the map away from the action, and the MOMENT I get into a firefight suddenly my latency spikes and sometimes even get the packet loss error come up for a split second. I know I'm not the only one who gets this, I am lost as to why other than this being entirely intentional and 343 just absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with us. There's no other way I can explain waiting so long to get thrown into 200ms matches most of the time, and the few times it is a 'good' connection it just happens to go to hell the moment there's any action.

Played about 5 matches, all with garbage connections. In one match, me and an enemy melee at the same time, our shields are down, on my screen, he is in front, back facing me, I melee, nothing happens, but he instantly melees nowhere near me and I die. Gotta love how the game puts you in matches with the worst connections.

[Blackout4711]

They say it is free to play...

But is it really?

I feel like I am paying in other ways. It's like every time I want to enjoy myself the game is like DO NOT DO THAT. YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE FUN HERE. Jesus Christ what a corporate nightmare of a product.

[Cloud Roller]

Originally posted by Blackout4711:

They say it is free to play...

But is it really?

I feel like I am paying in other ways. It's like every time I want to enjoy myself the game is like DO NOT DO THAT. YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE FUN HERE. Jesus Christ what a corporate nightmare of a product.

Just like how 343 made an update that removed fun features only for the community to give them enough ♥♥♥♥ to revert some of the changes made. Scorpion cannon gun in campaign? Nope, that counts as fun. Skill jumps on small corners to get around maps faster? Uh uh, nope, gotta get rid of those. No fun is allowed in this game people. If you have to revert changes you made to a game that come off as fun to others and people call you out for getting rid of them, you know you're incompetent at your job at pleasing a game's fan base. But it's 343, do we expect them to care?